1983 Hardee’s Marvel Comics 3-D Theatre TV Commercial!

Thanks to all of the great stories from the Retroist Podcast: Fast Food Memories I have found myself hankering more and more for some fast food…and maybe thinking back on those fantastic collectibles we obtained from those Happy Meals and Kid’s Meals in our youth more often than I normally do. CT’s story especially got me yearning back to the day when I was able to get my hands on my first Hardee’s Marvel Comics 3-D Theatre featuring the Origin of Firestar!

Image courtesy of He-Man.Org

I was a huge fan of the Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends TV show and I would never miss a Saturday morning episode on NBC. Heck, that is where I learned of many of the Marvel Comics characters firsthand like the X-Men, Dr. Strange and the Mighty Sub-Mariner! When you tune into the program week after week and start to see TV commercials like the one below you can bet I was bugging my Father to visit Hardee’s by the very next commercial break.

Like I mentioned before Firestar was the first ‘action strip’ that I was able to get my hands on. I ended up collecting 5 of the 6 strips but the one that I never was able to get was for Spider-Man himself, I guess he was just too popular to keep in stock.

Image courtesy of the Project Child Murdering Robot Blog

Image courtesy of the Project Child Murdering Robot Blog

Image courtesy of the Project Child Murdering Robot Blog

Image courtesy of the Project Child Murdering Robot Blog

A big thanks to He-Man.Org and the Project Child Murdering Robot for some of the awesome images you see above but more importantly a bigger thanks to CT for getting me thinking about the Hardee’s 3-D Theatre again!

Searching through the alleys for useful knowledge in the city of Nostalgia. Huge cinema fanatic and sometimes carrier of the flame for the weirding ways of 80s gaming, toys, and television. When his wife lets him he is quite happy sitting in the corner eating buckets of beef jerky.